It’s a scrumdiddlyumptious Logline Showdown this weekend. If this is your first time experiencing a Showdown, you check out the below loglines and then vote for your favorite one in the comments section. Whoever gets the most votes gets a script review next week. It’s also a great opportunity to tell writers what you like or dislike about their loglines so they can improve. So get to it! Here are November’s loglines…
Title: Down In Los Lunas
Genre: Horror
Logline: When a traveling book salesman discovers a slaughtered family and a lone survivor–a deaf teenage girl–at a remote farmhouse, together they must survive the night when the cult responsible for the murders returns to complete their sacrifice to an ancient deity.
Title: Jenkins and Watts: Paranormal Attorneys at Law
Genre: Comedy/Horror (30 minute pilot)
Logline: In a world where ghosts exist and have rights, Jenkins and Watts defend them against overzealous law enforcement, organized crime, and literal demons from hell…for fair market price.
Title: The Mentor
Genre: Thriller
Logline: An emotionally fragile executive failing to live up to his potential in life hires a mysterious personal development coach whose unorthodox, life-threatening tactics push him to the brink of death.
Title: Splashdown
Genre: Thriller
Logline: After their reentry goes wrong and they splashdown hundreds of miles off course, five astronauts and two space tourists must await rescue from shark-infested waters.
Title: A Chinese Vampire Story
Genre: Horror/Action
Logline: An elderly shop owner in San Francisco’s Chinatown sacrifices himself to become a goeng-si–a Chinese hopping vampire–so that he can get revenge against the gangsters terrorizing his neighborhood.
Title: 121.5
Genre: Thriller
Logline: A wanted man looking to flee the United States must put his trust in a radio operator to help him land a small plane safely after his flight instructor dies midway through his first lesson. Locke meets Buried
